Bug#264492: NewWorld (G4) PowerPC d-i hardware detect does not see firewire disk

2004-08-08 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: installation-reports powerpc businesscard "RC1" NewWorld PowerMac INSTALL REPORT Synopsis: "Partition hard drives" fails to see FireWire disk on powerpc NewWorld (G4) PowerMac on RC1 businesscard install. You folks are probably tired of seeing OldWorld PowerPC bug reports from

Bug#264492: NewWorld (G4) PowerPC d-i hardware detect does not see firewire disk

2004-08-09 Thread Joey Hess
Rick Thomas wrote: > The "detect disks" phase failed to detect my firewire disk, which I > was intending to use for installation test. I'm afraid that your report left out the lspci and lspci -n output that we need to get ohci1394 loaded on your system and enable firewire support. -- see shy jo

Bug#264492: NewWorld (G4) PowerPC d-i hardware detect does not see firewire disk

2004-08-09 Thread Rick_Thomas
On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 11:54, Joey Hess wrote: > Rick Thomas wrote: > > The "detect disks" phase failed to detect my firewire disk, which I > > was intending to use for installation test. > > I'm afraid that your report left out the lspci and lspci -n output that > we need to get ohci1394 loaded o

Bug#264492: NewWorld (G4) PowerPC d-i hardware detect does not see firewire disk

2004-08-09 Thread Joey Hess
Rick_Thomas wrote: > However, that said, let me argue that it should not be needed: > > All NewWorld Macs have onboard FireWire, and so potentially need > ohci1394 and sbp2 to access external disks. Now, it's true that not all > NewWorld Macs will have actual firewire disks, and loading those mod

Bug#264492: NewWorld (G4) PowerPC d-i hardware detect does not see firewire disk

2004-08-09 Thread Rick_Thomas
On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 15:07, Joey Hess wrote: > Rick_Thomas wrote: > > However, that said, let me argue that it should not be needed: > > > > All NewWorld Macs have onboard FireWire, and so potentially need > > ohci1394 and sbp2 to access external disks. Now, it's true that not all > > NewWorld M

Bug#264492: NewWorld (G4) PowerPC d-i hardware detect does not see firewire disk

2004-08-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 04:07:12PM -0300, Joey Hess wrote: > Rick_Thomas wrote: > > However, that said, let me argue that it should not be needed: > > > > All NewWorld Macs have onboard FireWire, and so potentially need > > ohci1394 and sbp2 to access external disks. Now, it's true that not all >

Bug#264492: NewWorld (G4) PowerPC d-i hardware detect does not see firewire disk

2004-08-09 Thread Joey Hess
Sven Luther wrote: > - i suspect that the pci id is already used to load the actual firewire > driver, and since discover 1 cannot load more than one module for a given > pci id, i suspect you will encounter problem this way. I suppose ohci1394 > will be loaded for the pci id. That sa

Bug#264492: NewWorld (G4) PowerPC d-i hardware detect does not see firewire disk

2004-08-10 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 08:02:05PM -0300, Joey Hess wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > - i suspect that the pci id is already used to load the actual firewire > > driver, and since discover 1 cannot load more than one module for a given > > pci id, i suspect you will encounter problem this w

Bug#264492: NewWorld (G4) PowerPC d-i hardware detect does not see firewire disk

2004-08-10 Thread Rick Thomas
On Monday, August 9, 2004, at 03:55 PM, Rick_Thomas wrote: OK, as I said, output of lspci and lspci -n will be sent tonight, when I can get my hands on the machine in question. Here is the output of "lspci ; lspci -n" Hope it helps! BTW, I manually did "modprobe ohci1394 ; modprobe sbp2" just befo

Bug#264492: NewWorld (G4) PowerPC d-i hardware detect does not see firewire disk

2004-08-10 Thread Rick Thomas
On Tuesday, August 10, 2004, at 04:04 AM, Sven Luther wrote: Ok, so we do it by hand. I wonder though what newworld pmac box he has that doesn't work, apple usually reused the same componnent in various boxes, and thus it should usually work. Well, it's a PowerMac G4 733 MHz. The case is grey.

Re: Bug#264492: NewWorld (G4) PowerPC d-i hardware detect does not see firewire disk

2004-08-10 Thread David Nusinow
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 04:26:04AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Monday, August 9, 2004, at 03:55 PM, Rick_Thomas wrote: > > > > >OK, as I said, output of lspci and lspci -n will be sent tonight, > >when I > >can get my hands on the machine in question. > > Here is the output of "lspci ; lsp

Re: Bug#264492: NewWorld (G4) PowerPC d-i hardware detect does not see firewire disk

2004-08-10 Thread Rick_Thomas
On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 11:52, David Nusinow wrote: > On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 04:26:04AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > > On Monday, August 9, 2004, at 03:55 PM, Rick_Thomas wrote: > > > > > > > >OK, as I said, output of lspci and lspci -n will be sent tonight, > > >when I > > >can get my hands o